Denis, oh, so interesting: so was 1190 the first German car (and not necessarily This Car)? The peculiar date, is that really January 22 1980?? What I am guessing is that 8ma1190 was then the first built in Germany, and that there was some kind of formal recognition of the new manufacturing location....That the letter that M!ke captured and expanded was a generic letter, not specific to this one car...the date in that one (I suppose is the last handwritten line) I cannot make sense of either...
(And M!ke, I remember when I finally got my '79 4re 308 on the road, and quit driving the '79 928 P-car...the Porsche was fabulous, technically a hundred years better than the Ferrari...but oh, the sound of webers and a flat crank...!. Nicht besser, nur anders...!)